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 Baruj Benacerraf Born Oct 29, 1920 [Nobel Foundation]
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 Selena Born Apr 16, 1971 [Warner Brothers]
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 María Fornés Born May 15, 1930 [University of Bremen]
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 David Farragut Born: Jul 5, 1801 [Wikipedia]
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| Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching |
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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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Use all of these letters to spell the name of a sports figure born on this date:
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Use all of these letters to spell the name of an Author, Writer or Poet born on this date:
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(hint: all three questions will require you to use a link found on this page)
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1927 work by P.G. Wodehouse (according to Authors' Calendar):
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Brazil: National Teachers' Day
(Observed since 1963 to commemorate Brazil's law for basic education established by Emperor Don Pedro 10/15/1827) |
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Tunisia: Evacuation Day
(Celebration of the evacuation of the last French colonial troops from Tunisia: 10/15/1963) |
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United States: White Cane Safety Day
(Observed annually on October 15 as per a 1964 act of Congress) |
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| 1830 | Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson (Massachusetts-born Author, Poet, Advocate for Native American Rights) |
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| 1923 | Italo Calvino (Cuban-Italian Fabulist, Folklorist) |
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| 1935 | Helen H. King (Mississippi-born Educator, Children's Author) |
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| 1940 | Barry Moser (Tennessee-born Illustrator of Classics) |
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| 1942 | Beatrice Gormley (California-born Children's Author) |
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| 1955 | Emma Chicester Clark |
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| 70 B.C. | Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro (Roman Poet) |
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| 1686 | Allan Ramsay (Scottish Poet) |
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| 1831 | Isabella Bird (English Author) |
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| 1875 | Jean Price-Mars (Haitian Educator, Diplomat, Author) |
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| 1893 | Saunders Lewis (Welsh Poet, Playwright, Politician; Founding Member of the Welsh Nationalist Party) |
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| 1881 | P.G. Wodehouse (English Novelist) |
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| 1905 | C.P. Snow (English Novelist) |
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| 1917 | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Ohio-born Historian) |
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| 1920 | Mario Puzo (New York City-born Author of The Godfather) |
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| 1923 | Italo Calvino (Cuban Journalist, Novelist) |
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| 1836 | James Tissot (French Artist) |
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| 1926 | Rexon Mathebula, (South African Artist) |
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| 1608 | Evangelista Torricelli (Italian Physicist and Mathematician) |
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| 1829 | Asaph Hall (Connecticut Astronomer) |
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| 1880 | Marie C. C. Stopes (Scottish Scientist, Advocate of Birth Control |
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| 1908 | John Kenneth Galbraith (Canadian-American Keynesian Economist) |
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| 1940 | Peter C. Doherty (Australian Medical Researcher; 1996 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1818 | Irvin McDowell (Ohio-born Union General) |
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| 1924 | Lee Iacocca (Pennsylvania-born Automotives Executive) |
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| 1844 | Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher) |
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| 1880 | Frank Aydelotte (Indiana-born Educator; President of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania (1921-40) |
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| 1910 | Edwin O. Reischauer (Harvard University Historian: 1938-1990; United States Ambassador to Japan: 1961-1966) |
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| 1780 | William Woodbridge (Connecticut-born Michigan Governor and U.S. Senator) |
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| 1838 | Isaac Charles Parker (Ohio-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Missouri) |
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| 1872 | Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (Virginia-born Wife of President Woodrow Wilson) |
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| 1900 | Mervyn LeRoy (San Francisco-born Film Director) |
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| 1906 | Victoria Spivey (Texas-born African-American Jazz Vocalist, Pianist) |
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| 1942 | Penny Marshall (New York City-born Actress, Director) |
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| 1943 | Richard Carpenter (Connecticut-born Popular Musician, Composer) |
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| 1953 | Tito Jackson (Indiana-born African-American Popular Singer, "The Jackson Five") |
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| 1959 | Emeril Lagasse (Massachusetts-born Chef, Restaurateur, Television Personality) |
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| 1858 | John L. Sullivan (Massachusetts-born Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame) |
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| 1945 | Jim Palmer (New York City-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1951 | Roscoe Tanner (Tennessee-born Professional Tennis Player) |
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| 1880 | Victorio (Chiricahua Apache Leader Killed South of El Paso, Texas) |
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| 1884 | James Thompson (The First African-American Resident of St. Paul, Minnesota; Only Slave Sold in Minnesota |
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| 1889 | Edward Aylsworth Perry (Massachusetts-born 14th Governor of Florida: 1885-1889) |
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| 1917 | Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (Dutch Exotic Dancer Known as Mata Hari: Executed in France for Spying) |
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| 1930 | Herbert Henry Dow (Canadian-American Founder of Dow Chemical) |
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| 1945 | Pierre Laval (Premier of Vichy France Executed for German Collaboration) |
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| 1946 | Herman Goering (Nazi Commander-in-Chief of the German Luftwaffe: Suicide) |
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| 1964 | Cole Porter (Indiana-born Composer, Songwriter) |
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| 1582 | Italy, France, Spain & Portugal Adopt the Gregorian Calendar |
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| 1780 | 1,000 British Regulars, Hessians, Loyalists and Indians Launch a Failed Attack Upon Middleburgh, New York |
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| 1783 | Francois de Rozier Pilots First Manned Hot Air Balloon Flight (84' above Paris) |
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| 1787 | Election Riots Force the Polls in Lewes, Delaware to Close and Be Moved to Western Sussex County |
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| 1794 | The First U.S. Silver Dollar Coins Are Released into Circulation |
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| 1800 | Spain Transfers the Louisiana Territory to France |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: rained all last night, we Set out early and proceeded on at 3 Miles passed an Ind. Camp on the Starboard Side we halted above and about 30 of the Indians came over in their Canoos of Skins, we eate with them, they give us meat, in return we gave fishhooks & Some beeds, about a mile higher we came too on the L. S. at a Camp of Ricres [Recorees - Arikara Indians] of about 8 Lodges, we also eate & they gave Some meat, we proceded on Saw numbers of Indians on both Sides passing a Creek, Saw many Curious hills, high and much the resemblance of a house with a hiped roof, at 12 oClock it Cleared away and the evening was pleasent, wind from the N. E.— at Sunset we arrived at a Camp of Ricares [Recorees - Arikara Indians] of 10 Lodges on the S. S. we Came too and Camped near them Capt Lewis & my Self went with the Chief who accompanis us, to the Huts of Several of the men all of whome Smoked & gave us Something to eate also Some meat to take away, those people were kind and appeared to be much plsd. at the attentioned paid them
Ordway: Some rain last night. Cloudy morning we Set off eairly. passd. a Timbred bottom where we Saw Some Indians. at 7 oC. we met a hunting party of the Rickarees [Recorees - Arikara Indians] comming down the river returning to their village, they had 12 Cannoes made of Bufflow hides loaded with excelent fat meat. we halted with them about 2 hours. they Gave us Some of their fat meat to carry with us & Gave us Some that they cooked to eat. we Smoaked with them. their party consisted of men women & children. our officers Gave them in return Some fish hooks Beeds &.C. we proceeded on passed Barron hills on the South Side of the River.
at 10 oC. we passed another hunting party who were Encamped in a timbred bottom on S. S. passed a handsome Bottom prarie & the Mouth of a creek where their was an old village Some years ago of the Chien [Cheyenne] Nation on S. S. we proceeded on. passed timbred bottoms on each Side of the River we Saw a nomber of Indians on the Shore on N. S. passd. a creek on S. S. at Sunset we Camped on N. S. at a hunting Camp of the R. Ree [Recorees - Arikara Indians] nation. their was abt.30 men & a nomber of women & children at this Camp. they treated us in the Same manner as the rest of their nation did.
the Greatest Curiousity to them was York Capt. Clarks Black Man. all the nation made a Great deal of him. the children would follow after him, & if he turned towards them they would run from him & hollow as if they were terreyfied, & afraid of him.
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| 1827 | Charles Darwin Is Admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge University, to Prepare for a Career in the Church |
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| Lafayette County, Arkansas is Created |
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| 1850 | Isaac Ebey Is the First Permanent U.S. Settler on Washington's Whidbey Island |
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| 1853 | In Texas, the First State Sängerfest (Singers' Festival) Begins in New Braunfels |
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| 1855 | University of San Francisco Opens to Students as St. Ignatius College |
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| 1856 | The Cape Disappointment Lighthouse Is First Lighted at the Mouth of the Columbia River |
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| 1857 | In Minnesota, Daily Mail Service Begins Between Prairie du Chien and St. Anthony |
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| 1858 | The 7th and Final Lincoln-Douglas Debate Takes Place in Alton, Illinois |
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| 1860 | Child's Letter Suggests Lincoln Grow a Beard to Improve His Appearance |
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| 1862 | The U.S.S. Fort Henry Captures the Confederate Sloop, G. L. Brockenborough on Florida's Apalachicola River |
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| 1863 | Four Federal Ships Work Together to Capture the British Steamer, Mail, Near St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| The C.S.S. Hunley Sinks During Tests |
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| 1864 | Union Troops Seize More Than 300 Barrels of Oranges from Groves South of Jacksonville, Florida |
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| President Lincoln Attends the Funeral Service for Chief Justice Taney |
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| 1873 | The Arkansas Press Association is Organized |
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| 1880 | Chiricahua Apache Leader Victorio Is Killed South of El Paso, Texas |
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| A Blizzard Kills At Least 6 People in Minnesota's Pipestone and Cottonwood Counties |
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| 1881 | Clarion, Iowa Is Incorporated |
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| 1882 | U.S. Supreme Court Declares the Civil Rights Act of 1875 Unconstitutional |
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| 1884 | The Florida Dental Association Is Founded in Jacksonville at a Meeting in Library Hall |
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| St. Joseph's Catholic Church Is Dedicated in Middletown, Delaware |
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| 1885 | 2,500 Marinette-Menominee Lumbermen Walk Off the Job to Support a Reduction in Workday Hours |
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| Morris Brown College Opens in Atlanta, Georgia |
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| 1891 | Concordia College Opens in Moorhead, Minnesota |
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| 1900 | Boston Symphony Hall Is Opened |
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| Newspaper Publisher, William Randolph Hearst, Hosts Benefit in New York City for Orphans of the Galveston, Texas Hurricane |
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| 1909 | In Albuquerque, New Mexico, President William Howard Taft Gets in a Sharp Debate with Residents Who Are Rallying for Statehood |
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| 1910 | The University of Illinois Hosts the First College Homecoming Football Game |
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| 1914 | U.S. House Passes Clayton Anti-Trust Act Sanctioning Labor Unions |
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| 1915 | U.S. Banks Provide $5M War Loan to the British & French |
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| 1917 | French Execute Dutch-born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (Mata Hari) for Spying |
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| Secretary of War Newton D. Baker Appoints Emmett Scott AS Special Assistant to Help Reduce Racial Tension |
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| 1918 | Film Studios Stop Releasing Movies Due to Flu Pandemic |
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| 1920 | Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence Is Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York |
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| 1924 | U.S.S. Los Angeles Naval Airship Completes 5,000-Mile, 82.5-hour Atlantic Crossing from Germany to Lakehurst, New Jersey |
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| 1926 | Francis Houghtaling Registers as the First Student Enrolled at Florida's University of Miami |
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| 1934 | National Airlines Begins Operations with a 142-mile Airmail Run between St. Petersburg and Daytona Beach, Florida |
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| 1939 | New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) Is Dedicated. |
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| 1940 | Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator Opens in Theaters |
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| 1941 | With Nazi Troops Only 60 Miles Away, Moscow's Elite Flee the City |
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| The Hills Beyond by Thomas Wolfe Is Published Posthumously by Harper & Bros |
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| 1943 | Texas Native, Ira Eaker, Is Given Command of Both American Air Forces in England |
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| 1945 | Vichy French Premier Pierre Laval Is Executed for German Collaboration |
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| 1946 | Nazi Leader Herman Goering Kills Himself in Prison with Cyanide |
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| V8 Trademark Is Registered for Canned Mixed Vegetable Juices |
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| 1948 | Future President Gerald Ford Marries Elizabeth Anne ("Betty") Bloomer |
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| 1949 | The Chinese Communist Party's People's Liberation Army Moves into Guangzhou (Canton) Without Resistance |
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| 1950 | Truman & MacArthur Meet on Wake Island to Discuss the Korean War |
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| Aircall, America's First Remote Radio Paging Service, Begins Operation |
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| 1951 | I Love Lucy Debuts on Television |
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| 1952 | Japan's National Police Reserve Is Reorganized as the National Security Force |
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| 1953 | Teahouse of the August Moon Opens on Broadway |
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| Celebrations Begin in New Orleans to Mark the Sesquicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase |
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| 1954 | Hurricane Hazel Ravages the North America's Eastern Seaboard From South Carolina to Toronto, Canada; 176 People Die |
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| 98-mph Wind Gusts from Hurricane Hazel Are the Highest Ever Recorded in Delaware, Causing 7 Deaths |
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| 1956 | Leonard Bernstein Is Named co-Principal Conductor of the New York Philharmonic with Dimitri Mitropoulos |
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| 1957 | The U.S. Forest Service Awards the Alaska Lumber & Pulp Company at Sitka a Contract for 5.25 Billion Board Feet of Timber |
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| 1958 | Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums Is Published |
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| 1964 | Leonid Brezhnev Chosen to Replace Nikita S. Khrushchev as Leader of the Soviet Union |
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| Florida's Bob Hayes Wins the Olympic Gold Medal in the 100-meter Dash at the Tokyo Games |
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| 1965 | New York, Pacifist David Miller Is the First U.S. War Protestor to Burn His Draft Card |
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| 1966 | President Johnson Signs Bill Creating the U.S. Department of Transportation |
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| President Johnson Signs Legislation Creating Guadalupe Mountains National Park |
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| The U.S. Coast Guard Is Transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Transportation. |
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| In Oakland, California, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and David Hilliard Outline a 10 Point Platform for the Founding of the Black Panther Party |
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| 1968 | Al Oerter Is First Athlete to Win Same Track Event in Four Consecutive Olympics |
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| Wyomia Tyus Wins Second Consecutive Olympic Gold for 100M Dash |
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| Led Zeppelin Performs Its First Show at Surrey University in England. |
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| 1969 | Peace Activists Demonstrate Across the United States |
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| 1971 | Japan Accepts "Voluntary" Quotas on Textile Exports to the U.S. |
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| Minnesota's Supreme Court Rules the State's Prohibition of Same-Sex Marriages Is Constitutional |
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| A New Bridge Near Wayne, West Virginia Is Dedicated in Honor of Newsman David Brinkley |
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| 1972 | Jackie Robinson Throws Out the Ceremonial First Pitch at the Second Game of the World Series |
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| NASA Launches NOAA 2 Meteorological Satellite |
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| NASA Launches OSCAR 6 Communications Satellite for Amateur Radio Operators |
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| 1976 | Mondale & Dole Participate in First-ever Vice-Presidential Candidate Debate |
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| 1979 | A 6.5 Magnitude Earthquake Injures 91 in the Imperial Valley on the Mexican-California Border |
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| 1984 | The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Establishes a Facility to Train Indian Tribal Police |
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| 1986 | Edward J. Perkins First African-American Ambassador to South Africa. |
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| 1987 | Gale Force Winds Uproot Trees and Create Severe Property Damage Across England |
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| 1989 | President de Klerk Frees Imprisoned African National Congress (ANC) Members |
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| Wayne Gretzky Sets the NHL Scoring Record: 1,850 Career Pts |
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| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev Is Selected to Receive the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| South Africa Repeals Separate Amenities Act (barring blacks from facilities) |
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| 1991 | The U.S. Senate Confirms Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48 |
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| Pizza Hut Trademark Registered |
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| 1993 | F.W. de Klerk & Nelson Mandela Are Chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| 1997 | A 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 5 Along the Central Coast of Chile |
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| NASA Launches the Cassini Spacecraft to Explore Saturn's System of Rings and Moons from Orbit |
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| In Nevada, British Royal Air Force Pilot Andy Green Twice Breaks the Speed of Sound in a Jet-Powered Car |
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| 1998 | Impossible Marriage, by Beth Henley, Opens on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre in New York |
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| 1999 | Doctors Without Borders Chosen to Receive the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| 2001 | Office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Opens Anthrax-tainted Letter |
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| 2003 | In New Orleans, the Louis Armstrong House Is Opened as a Museum |
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| 2006 | 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Knocks Out Electricity & Does Structural Damage throughout the Island of Hawaii |
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